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[image: Image celebrating the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA). Features a cupcake with a lit '50' candle, symbolizing an
anniversary, next to a stack of books and a red apple in front of a green
chalkboard.]
Community Town Hall: 50th Anniversary of IDEA & the Future of Education for
Learners with Visual Impairment and DeafBlindness

Date & Time

Dec 1, 2025 07:00 PM  in  Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Description

Let’s celebrate, learn, and take action! The Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) was enacted November 29, 1975. This year, we come
together to celebrate 50 years of progress and to discuss current and
proposed changes at the U.S. Department of Education that may impact
essential rights, protections, and services for infants, toddlers,
children, and youth with visual impairments, deafblindness, and other
disabilities. Everyone is welcome! We invite families, teachers, teachers
in training, self-advocates, administrators, friends, and members of the
media! When you register, you’ll have the chance to submit questions for
the panel. After the Town Hall, you’ll receive a link to the recording
along with resources and easy action steps to spread the word about access
to education for learners with visual impairment and deafblindness.
Sponsoring Organizations Association for Education and Rehabilitation of
the Blind and Visual Impaired (AER), Academy for Certification of Vision
Rehabilitation & Education Professionals (ACVREP), Portland State
University Visually Impaired Learner & Orientation & Mobility Programs,
Success Beyond Sight, Vision Serve Alliance, and MORE!* Contributors Joshua
Miele is a blind scientist, designer, author, and disability scholar whose
pioneering contributions were recognized in 2021 when he was named a
MacArthur Fellow. Sarah Chatfield is the CEO of Sonja Biggs Educational
Services Inc. and a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments; she is
joined for this panel discussion by her son, Jack, a high school sophomore
who reads both print and Braille. Larry Wexler served as the Director of
the Research to Practice Division within the Office of Special Education
Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education from 2010 to 2024.
Please reach out to eLearning at aerbvi.org with any questions.

[image: An apple on a desk, presumably for a teacher.]

David Goldfield,

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